• Job Description

  Req#: 104184

  End Date

  Wednesday 29 November 2023

  Salary Range

  £85,255 - £100,300

  
  

  We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.

  Agile Working Options

  Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share

  Job Description Summary

  Advance the reputation of Lloyds Banking Group as the bank that helps Britain prosper through creation and delivery of innovative communications that evidence effective storytelling, are fully integrated, multi-channel and build pride in the Group

  Job Description

  JOB TITLE: Creative Studio Production Lead

  LOCATION(S): London, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Halifax, Edinburgh

  SALARY - £71,000 to £100,000

  HOURS: Full-time

  WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

  Are you looking for a role where you can use your creativity to bring communications to life?

  
  About this opportunity:

  We're recruiting for a Production Lead in our Creative Studio at Lloyds Banking Group! The in-house team uses outstanding ideation, project management, script/copywriting, graphic design, film production, and motion graphics capability to enhance our Group messages internally and externally. Over the last 18 months we’ve built a strong reputation for quality and are used and deployed for all high-profile communications - the moments that matter!

  
  The Creative Studio is an advisor to GCA Partner and channel teams in monitoring the quality of creative, insight and output. This includes creative assets that are on brand, of high-quality and utilise best-practice for the objective and channel.

  
  As the Production Lead you'll hold a key leadership role in the team that will help us move to the next level. This role will be an all-rounder, equally capable of managing workflow, prioritising briefs with technical proficiency, and influencing and collaborating with team members at all levels as they are thinking/talking creatively.

  
  What you'll be doing:

  • As the first point of contact into the Creative Studio you'll see all briefs, connecting with customers to understand objectives and instinctively know how to bring them to life through different creative routes.
  • Lead and manages a team of 3 direct reports, coaching and developing them and embodying our values.
  • Work closely with our agency partners and freelance network to know their strengths and weaknesses, their service offering, how to get the best out of them and when to deploy them.
  • Challenge and interrogate constructively to make sure content and campaigns have clear strategic direction, objectives and impact.
  • Work closely with the Film Lead and Creative Lead to set the quality benchmarks at the highest level and help with QA, creative suggestions for improvements and review.
  • Be a brand guardian/champion with an ability to spot the subtle differences in accessibility and make sure work produced in-house and externally is consistent with the brand.

  
  Why Lloyds Banking Group?

  If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

  
  What we need from you:

  Essential:

  • Decisive and confident in your decisions, applying sound judgement to complex tasks.
  • Be able to build rapport with people at any level and influence decision making with diplomacy.
  • Remain calm under pressure and able to adapt to a changing workload and environment.
  • An innovative problem solver who is able to bring a brief to life with creative ideas and technical understanding of delivery.
  • An excellent understanding of the Adobe suite and how the creative production process works
  • A background in communications, crisis comms, reputation management and improvement
  • An expert in how to build integrated and impactful communications within a Corporate setting

  
  Desirable:

  • Experience in an agency environment would be advantageous.

  
  About working for us

  Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

  
  We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  • An annual performance-related bonus
  • Share schemes including free shares
  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
  • 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

  
  Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.

  At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

  We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

  We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

• About the company

  For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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